Re: Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 08/31/03

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To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, stable@freebsd.org

    At 22:49 30/08/2003 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
    >Now, if you want to discuss a way for the ports builders to say "Wow,
    >that seemed like a pretty good one!" when bento builds somewhere north
    >of 90% of the packages, so they push a button and produce a snapshot,
    >that's a least a possibility. That will never handle the awful morass
    >of dependencies on complicated packages like GNOME or KDE applications,
    >but it MIGHT produce occasional snapshots of some use to some people.

       Can someone explain to me why it would be necessary to build *snapshots*
    of the ports tree? Why can't packages just be rebuilt when they change --
    the way portupgrade does?
       I get the feeling that I'm missing something obvious here...

    Colin Percival

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